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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done by the members of the eleven during the past six weeks is to make itself felt for the first time, for all contests so far have been of a preparatory school nature, and are valueless in making a true estimate of the true worth of the eleven. Our return to the field of inter-collegiate foot-ball contests has been a source of pleasure to all Harvard men. To day we are to see whether there is any foundation for that feeling, and likewise to discover whether a year of idleness has destroyed all the foot-ball talent that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1886 | See Source »

BICYCLE CLUB. There will be a run to Auburndale Friday, November 12th, starting from University at 4.15; supper at Woodlawn Park Hotel, and returd by moonlight. On return, a smoker will be held at 16 Holyoke house to which all active and associate members are invited. All members of the club are most earnestly requested to join in the run. Sign at Bartlett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 11/11/1886 | See Source »

Those who intend to make the round trip to Princeton on Saturday should sign at once, at Leavitt & Peirce's. The party will leave by the Fall River Line on Friday and return Sunday night. If 50 sign the price will be exceedingly cheap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/10/1886 | See Source »

...away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than one, the alma mater of the yet-undreamt-of College in the wilderness; who knows but that the vision of that altar and its vows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gift of the Old Cambridge to the New. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...fading already, as their glory faded. The bridge is all ablaze with red light, and the air is full of hissing rockets and golden rain. But the light in the old castle is dying. One by one the rugged towers, the pillars and sculptures, the wide, desolate windows return, to the solemn, brooding darkness whence they so suddenly leapt. Decay and ruin can be replaced - never reinstated. Black night settles once more, and into it looms once more the shadowy mountain. The last red ray quivers for an instant in the Octagon Tower and then goes suddenly out, announcing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. III. | 11/3/1886 | See Source »

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